DIY Cultures

14/07/2025

DIY Cultures founder Hamja Ahsan NEW Zine fair opens 26th July 2025 12pm-7pm BOOK HERE. Zine Mela: South Asian Journeys in DIY Cultures
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zine-fair-zine-mela-south-asian-journeys-in-diy-cultures-tickets-1421745893239

25/06/2025

APPLY FOR A TABLE - Deadline 1st July 7pm
https://forms.gle/7QYQVn1MvMDbbAKo9

24/06/2025

OPEN CALL FOR ZINE MELA LONDON FESTIVAL
Stalls open now to South Asian creatives, zine makers, comic, print makers, craft, illustrators.
https://forms.gle/QdP7TvLyedSFUHtX7

Zine Mela Zine fair takes place on 26th July 12pm-7pm.
(Exhibition & archives reading room open to 14th August)

The venue: is WIP Space Studios, Wandworth, Dormay St, London SW18 1EY

instagram: .mela

South Asia designates: Bangladesh, Kashmir, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Adivasi Indigenous Nations, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, Afghanistan, and their global diasporas.

DEADLINE: 1st July, 7pm)

Open call for people who want a stall.
Half table 3ft X 2ft (£10)
Full table 6ft (£15)

At the centre of Zine Mela festival - it is our zine fair, a market where makers from all over the country come to sell and swap their zines.

Holding a table at the zine fair is a great opportunity to meet like-minded zine-makers, showcase what you've made to the public, and make some sales, creative exchanges.

Curated by Hamja Ahsan, co-founder of DIY Cultures festival (2013-2017).

Any further questions to : [email protected]

30/03/2025

Eid Mubarak from DIY Cultures

04/02/2025

ZINE download We (MUST) Keep Us Safe: An interview with a Long-Term, Anonymous Anarchist Comrade on Repression, Trauma, Security Culture, and Revolutionary Solidarity

Anarchist, community, Conflict, General, harm reduction, Health, Neurodiversity, Police, Prisons, repression, Security Culture, Transcribed, United States, zine We (MUST) Keep Us Safe: An interview with a Long-Term, Anonymous Anarchist Comrade on Repression, Trauma, Security Culture, and Revolutiona...

28/01/2025

A publication about words | Writing for love, healing & liberation | Nature-allied journaling keeping | Exploring the joys & realities of living a creative life as a WOC | Becoming archivists of everyday life 🖌✊🏽. Click to read A Wild Archive, by Dal Kular, a Substack publication.

29/08/2024

Neurodiversity ZINE Club & 1 hour Revolutionary Neurodiversity comedy set BOOK NOW

See FULL 1 hour Award-winning comedy show by Don Biswas - autism, dyspraxia & Leftism. Neurodiversity Zines archives chill & make after

13/08/2024

DIY Hamja curates Exhibition on Islamophobia, Extradition & Prisoner Solidarity on day of 10th anniversary of his brother's freedom. LONDON WIP SPACE> BOOK NOW 6pm-9pm
See Hamja 1st zine NAUSEA made with his brother. ALL DIY Cultures people welcome.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exhibition-launch-my-brother-is-back-with-talks-short-film-poetry-tour-tickets-972171028717

16/06/2024

Eid Mubarak from DIY Cultures. (post by DIY Culture co-founder Hamja Ahsan)

29/05/2024

HELP! Support DIY Cultures founder Hamja Ahsan. Germany repression of Palestine Solidarity in the arts will come for others.
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19/02/2024

Beautiful Abida Parveen zine gifted to me by zine by Shreyas R Krishnan 🇮🇳 Abida Parveen is a great Qawwali singer 🇵🇰 download her albums if you haven't already.